Buckshot Was Shocked Eminem Remade "I Got Cha Opin" On "Don't Front"

Exclusive: Buckshot says that Eminem was in the zone when he recorded "Don't Front," a remake of Black Moon's "I Got Cha Opin."

Buckshot said that he was given less than a day’s notice last month that Eminem would be remaking Black Moon’s “I Got Cha Opin” and that he would be flying to Detroit from New York in order to attend the recording session. The subsequent song, “Don’t Front,” is featured as a special bonus track that comes when fans purchase both Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2 and Call of Duty: Ghosts, both of which are scheduled to be released tomorrow (November 5).

During an exclusive interview with HipHopDX, Buckshot said that he was surprised that Eminem chose to remake the original version of the song and not the remix, which was released commercially as a single and became more popular than the album version included on Black Moon’s debut album, 1993’s Enta Da Stage.

“It didn’t really matter which version he wanted to do,” Buckshot says during his exclusive interview with HipHopDX. “I was just happy that he gave consideration to any one of them. He decided to do the original. When I got to the studio, I could totally, totally see why now. What he did to that record, it took me 10 minutes probably to pick my mouth up. I was so in shock for a minute. I was like, ‘What the hell?’”

“Don’t Front” features Eminem performing all the verses, while Buckshot appears throughout the song, showing up on its chorus, adlibs and at the beginning of each verse.

“The way it was done is the way it was meant to be done because that record [the original version of ‘I Got Cha Opin’] put me in that zone,” Buckshot says. “That’s a war cry record, as opposed to it being a feature-type thing. It’s more like, ‘I’m going back to simply honor a person like Buckshot, than have him come do a verse and me do a verse.’ He put himself in the spirit of ‘I Got Cha Opin’ on ‘Don’t Front’ the same way the spirits put me physically in that position the first time.”

Buckshot says he found out about the remake through Dru Ha, his partner in Duck Down Music Inc. Dru Ha has a relationship with Eminem and Eminem’s manager, Paul Rosenberg.

Buckshot said he didn’t know what to think when he first learned of the song. “In your head, you kind of don’t think anything,” Buckshot says. “You’re just happy that a person wanted to do the record. It was more of a shock than anything. You don’t have stuff like that in your mind, like, ‘Someone’s going to do my record over.’ That’s not something [I think about].”

The end result, however, should silence any of Eminem’s critics, Buckshot says.

“If you ever doubted Eminem as any type of a spitter, listen to ‘Don’t Front’ and that shit will convince you nine-fold,” Buckshot says. “When I listen to that record, he’s not a game.”

Anonymous

Anonymous

this just a trick to get niggas to support this album while the media and them place him on top of this black culture music to make it appear as if white niggas do our music better...not. they just got the machine spending money, controlling the gates, and making holograms so it appears so.

Scarface the Racist

Anon2, you should stop thinking. Anon1 is a dumbass, but let's face it, there is a concerted effort to co-opt Hip Hop and turn it into shit.
Unfortunately, too late, already happened. Anon1 just wrong that this has anything to do with it, Em ain't holding down our race by freaking remaking a song. That's some ho shit to say that.

Anonymous

Anonymous

Angela Amador

I looked at the receipt which said $9310, I have faith that my mom in-law was truly taking home money parttime from their computer.. there neighbour has been doing this 4 only about twentey months and resently paid for the morgage on their appartment and purchased themselves a Lotus Elan. look at these guys WWW FB39 COm

Anonymous

Money First

Classic record and Buckshot is one of the dopest MC's! Good 2 see Eminem showing respect to those before him...We need more of that from these newer artists and the culture would move forward correctly!!!

Anonymous

I have always stood by this track...T O U G H beat. Not feeling the mix here though, or the fact that he's rhyming over the intro with the scratches (though I know the instrumental was never released).

Whorida

Anonymous

GIVE ME A CHANCE
Youtube is all about finding new artist, & though I been rapping for a while im still consider a new artist. I just want my music heard thats all, im not looking for no record deal, getting famous 'r anything like that.! so please just spare a few sec. to check me out, & if you like what you heard please SUBSCRIBE so ill know you actually listen & support
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaSNK0pm4eY

Anonymous

Anonymous

"Eminem articles get the most views and comments"
^ y'all say the same thing about Wayne, Drake, Jay, Kanye, Nicki
It's nothing but promotion for artist, views/clicks for site.
So when you see comments like "Black Moon has no fans and no longer officially exists in the consumer world of hip hop", it's most likely either a lonely kid starving for attention, a media programmed consumer, or an intern posing as a troll to boost hits.

Anonymous

You would think they could do a few articles instead of 10,000, it just hurts their credibility as a website but they don't have much credibility to begin with so they have nothing to lose and a lot of money to gain.

Anonymous

Real Talk

LEVITIKUZ

I'm shocked Hip Hop Dx wrote an Eminem article. It's been so long since we've had one...
NOTE: I'm a big Eminem fan. Him and Nas are my favs but I mean isn't there anything else in Hip-Hop going on? No? Come on Game, talk shit about 50 and then 50 talk shit about Game. Get high and fucked up again Lil Wayne and talk shit about every rapper and then forget you said that.

Anonymous

Anonymous

NEWSFLASH: THERE ARE A LOT OF NEWS ABOUT ARTISTS WHEN THEY'RE RELEASING ALBUMS OR GO ON TOUR BECAUSE THEY GO ON PRESS AND MARKETING CAMPAIGNS WHERE THEY DO INTERVIEWS AND OTHER PROMOTION.
IT IS NOT FUCKING ROCKET SCIENCE

Anonymous

what you guys said are idiots said
once i see the front page with 8 Eminem songs, 4 articles and click one story to see a thousand or 500 comments im out
7 more articles this week not even counting the projections, Tuesday final tallies and Wednesday numbers
cosign this buckshot remake though

You Guys Are Idiots

You fucks must not realize how online articles make money. Every time you click on the article the writer gets paid. You could always not fucking click on Eminem articles but you fuckboys love typing up comments so much that you can't resists. And the site laughs to the bank every time.